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How the internet shrinks the world...and is great for sending you off on a tangent!

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  • 07-08-2017 1:32pm
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    Del.Monte
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    URRIS.jpg

    Here I am this morning innocently posting a picture of Malin Head on my Irish Postcards blog https://irishpostcards.wordpress.com/topographical/ and as I like to add useful links I click on Urris Hills wiki entry here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urris

    Browsing through the Wiki page I noticed a reference to - At around 3pm, April 11, 1941, a Vickers Wellington bomber (W5653) crashed into the Urris Hills and continuing on I find that it was a F/O Alfred Cattley (40888) who piloted the craft.

    Given that Cattley is one of my family names and Alfred is also one I investigate further here: http://www.irishidentity.com/extras/hidden/stories/urris.htm

    where I discover that: Flying Pilot Officer Alfred Patrick Cattley, R.A.F., aged 25 who was of Russian birth; and I know that I'm on to something. Quite a number of my Cattleys were born in Russia pre-Revolution and a further search brings up the personal details of my unfortunate ancestor: http://mckechnies.net/family/cattley/peter/index.htm

    and returning to my regular Catlay/Cattley website here: http://members.iinet.net.au/~ericah/cattley/d1.html

    I am easily able to find him on the family tree.

    I've spent quite a lot of time researching family history over the years but rarely found something so easily - especially when not looking for it at all.

    1938-Peter.jpg

    Alfred Patrick Cattley (1916-1941) RIP

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    spurious
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    Great stuff.


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    tabbey
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    Well done Den.Monte, and thank you for acquainting us with your excellent postcard site.

    I often find leads to one branch of my ancestry while browsing for something totally different. One thing leads to another, filling some gaps while creating more spaces to fill.

    It fills me with great satisfaction, but also partially explains why my research is all over the place.


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    Jellybaby1
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    Thank you for sharing that, Del.Monte. Your postcards blog is very interesting. Really love vintage postcards myself.


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    pedroeibar1
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    Fascinating tale and a great ancestral find. Serendipity. I often get waylaid but never with a stroke of luck like that.

    More History & Heritage than Genealogy, but………Interesting blog also, Should the ‘Vale of Shangannah’ card not be classified as in Co. Dublin? The castle in the foreground originally was named Victoria Castle built for Col. Robert Warren, supposedly to commemorate Queen Victoria’s accession to the throne. He also owned Killiney Castle (now the hotel). He later sold at a reduced price the land that is now Killiney Hill (Victoria Park). The castle in your card was gutted by fire in 1928, then Sir Thomas Power (the whiskey family) restored and renamed it Ayesha Castle”, after the goddess who rose from the flames in Rider Haggard’s novel. Singer/composer Enya bought it about 20 years ago and renamed it “Manderley” after the house in du Maurier’s novel, Rebecca.


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